MULTIMEDI

• Interactive Multimedia


  Any computer-delivered electronic system that allows the user to control, combine, and manipulate different types of media, such as text, sound, video, computer graphics, and animation
• Designing a Multimedia Project

  1. Thinking

  2. Choosing

  3. Making

  4. Doing
• Designing a multimedia project

  • Requires knowledge and skill with computers
  • Talent in graphics, arts, video, and music
  • Ability to conceptualize logical pathways
• Designing the structure


  1. Mapping the structure of a project

  2. Linear

  3. Hierarchical

  4. Non-linear

  5. Composite
• Depth structure


  Represents the complete navigation map and describes all the links between all the components of the project
• Surface structure


  Represents the structures actually realized by a user while navigating the depth structure
• Hotspots


  • Add interactivity to a multimedia project
  • Text
  • Graphic
  • Icon
• Hyperlinks


  A hotspot that connects a viewer to another part of the same document, a different document, or another Web site
• Image maps


  Larger images that are sectioned into hot areas with associated links
• Icons


  Fundamental graphic objects symbolic of an activity or concept
• Buttons


  A graphic image that is a hotspot
• Plug-ins


  Enable users to create plain or animated buttons
• Modal interface


  The viewer can simply click a Novice/Expert button and change the approach of the whole interface
• Graphical user interface (GUI)


  • Simplicity
  • Consistency
  • Ease of use
  • Built-in help systems
  • Standard patterns of activity that produces the standard expected results
• Graphical approaches that work

  • Plenty of "non-information areas", or white space in the screens
  • Executed contrasts
  • Gradients
  • Shadows
  • Eye-grabbers
• Graphical approaches to avoid

  • Clashes of color
  • Busy screens
  • Requiring more than two button clicks to quit
  • Too many numbers and words
  • Too many substantive elements presented too quickly
• Audio interface


  Sounds can be background music, special effects for button clicks, voice-overs, effects synced to animation
• Producing a Multimedia Project

  1. Answering questions about disk storage space

  2. Expertise available

  3. Backup system

  4. Financial arrangements

  5. Communication with clients
• Working with clients


  • Have a system in place for good communication
  • Control the client review process
  • Develop a scheme that specifies the number and duration of client approval cycles
  • Provide a mechanism for change orders
• Data storage media and transportation


  Necessary so that a client is easily able to review the work
• Tracking


  Organize a method for tracking the receipt of material to be incorporated in a project
• Tracking and copyrighting


  Version control of files is very important, especially in large projects
• Multimedia tools


  Using a combination of multimedia technologies or content forms such as text, audio, picture, video or animation
• Specific Tools and Software

  • Usability
  • Animations
  • Smoothness
  • Integration
  • Delivery
  • User friendliness
  • Interesting to buy by clients
• Web-based learning Sites


  • Web friendly Presentations
  • Reusable Course Content
  • Self-Paced Resources
  • Engage diverse learning styles
• EDpuzzle


  Site that allows users to select a video and customize it by editing, cropping, recording audio, and adding questions to make an engaging presentation or lesson
• Video Editing Software


  • Adobe Premiere Pro
  • Adobe After Effects
• Vector Graphics Software


  • Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe Premiere


  • Non-linear video editing
  • Metadata and ingest logging
  • Media output encoding
• Adobe After Effects


  • Create cinematic movie titles, intros, and transitions
  • Remove an object from a clip
  • Start a fire or make it rain
  • Animate a logo or character
  • Navigate and design in a 3D space
• Create compositions in After Effects

  Use Dynamic Link to eliminate intermediate rendering in Adobe Premiere Pro
• Adobe Illustrator


  • Create everything from web and mobile graphics to logos, icons, book illustrations, product packaging, and billboards
  • Experience the freedom and flexibility across desktop and iPad
• Lightroom


  • Cloud-based service that gives you everything you need to create, edit, organize, store, and share your photos across any device
  • Connect with fellow photographers and deepen your skills in the preview of the new Lightroom community
• Adobe Spark


  • Create social graphics, web pages, and short videos
  • Get full access to premium templates, Adobe fonts and more
  • Add your brand to make anything you create uniquely yours
  • Available on web and mobile apps
• Adobe Animate


  • Design interactive animations for games, TV shows, and the web
  • Bring cartoons and banner ads to life
  • Create animated doodles and avatars
  • Add action to eLearning content and infographics
  • Quickly publish to multiple platforms in just about any format
• Multimedia projector


  Compact, high resolution, full-color projector capable of projecting text, images, video and audio content
• Setting up a multimedia projector

  1. Attach power cord to extension

  2. Connect VGA cord to projector and PC

  3. Connect sound cord to projector and PC

  4. Turn on computer first, then projector
• Categories of multimedia projectors

  • Ultra light projectors
  • Conference room projectors
  • Fixed installation projectors
• Uses of multimedia projectors

  • To inform
  • To persuade
  • To train
  • To educate
  • Using in seminars and Expos
  • Using in Business Meetings
  • Using in workshop for trainings
  • Using in classroom for teaching Efficiently
• Projected visuals


  Media formats in which still images are enlarged and displayed on a screen